Publication: Bureau of Land Management
Author: Michael L. Gregg & Amy Bleier
Date of Publication: 2008
PDF File: Gregg-and-Bleier-The-Cannonball-River-Study-Unit.pdf
Description
The Cannonball River Study Unit (CRSU), like other large parts of western North Dakota, is a land of prominent buttes. From west to east, the major named buttes are White Butte, West Rainy Butte, East Rainy Butte, Whetstone Buttes, Wolf Buttes, Tepee Buttes (there is another Tepee Buttes in the northern portion of the Little Missouri River Study Unit), Rocky Ridge, Twin Buttes (not the Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in the Garrison Study Unit), Square Butte (there is also Square Buttes in Oliver County), Cedar Butte, Pretty Rock Butte, and Dogtooth Butte. The western, windward edges of most of these buttes were good places to trap eagles